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"Only an infectious disease would have stopped me," she said, referring to her transfer to the ministry in 1942.

"I was flattered, because it was a reward for being the fastest typist at the radio station."

Nearing the end of her life, Pomsel insisted her first and possibly last interview has nothing to do with clearing her conscious.

She described her role in the Nazi propaganda machine as "just another job."

Her roles included downplaying the statistics of fallen German soldiers and exaggerating the number of rapes of German woman by the Red Army.

She recalled that while life had become prosperous for her at the ministry, her best friend Eva Löwenthal - a red-haired Jewish girl - struggled after Hitler's rise to power.

It was six decades after the war that she discovered her friend had been sent to Auschwitz in November 1943, and had been declared dead in 1945.

"Those people nowadays who say they would have stood up against the Nazis – I believe they are sincere in meaning that, but believe me, most of them wouldn’t have," Pomsel said.

"The whole country was as if under a kind of a spell. I could open myself up to the accusations that I wasn’t interested in politics but the truth is, the idealism of youth might easily have led to you having your neck broken."